Female titular films

[weatherall]

I was just thinking how few of these there are.
(Films where the title is a woman's name)

I know I don't need to tell the fwr board how sexist Hollywood is but this marker is a really obvious sign of this.

There are so many good stories that could be told about fictional or real women's lives. Filmmakers are really missing a beat imo.

Off the top of my head I can only think of

Erin Brockovitch
Salt
Elizabeth
Emma
Charlotte Grey ?
Shirley Valentine
Pocahontas

Roxanne
Annie Hall
Matilda

Calamity Jane? I can't think of any!

Thelma and Louise

Lucy (the new Scarlett Johannsen film)

Mary Poppins The greatest feminist of them all.

Nikita
Amelie
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Maleficent
Cinderella

...and Nanny McPhee

Hanna

I think it's a remake of Ronin perhaps? Anyway, I thought it was really good.

Morven Caller (which I haven't seen but always sounds interesting).
Mulan.
Jane Eyre (various versions).
Vera Drake (? not sure about the surname - the one about the 50s abortionist)
Thelma and Louise.
Mrs Brown (the one about Queen Victoria).

I know what you mean about the film industry, it's not just Hollywood though. I had to write an essay recently about Spanish films (for a language course) and thought I'd write about gender and feminism and I just couldn't think of any Spanish film directors who were women, or Spanish films which took a feminist perspective at all (I don't know loads about Spanish films but I've seen quite a few over the years and it shocked me that I couldn't come up with anything feminist or by a woman at all. It's much harder than it is in literature to find good female leads or authors or directors).

Angie (was that a film? Gina Davis?)

Nikita/La Femme Nikita

yes i enjoyed hanna

does sleeping beauty count? sorry this is horribly pedantic but i thought she had a real name?

Aurora or Auralia wasn't it? Something like that anyway.

Sleeping Beauty's name is Aurora!

Carrie
Sabrina

Morven Caller was a great book. Haven't seen the film but do fancy it.

So who wants to analyse why so many of these are Disney films?

Silkwood
Phenomena
Jackie Brown
Marnie

Gah. Philomena, not Phenomena. Damnyouautocorrect.

Private Benjamin
Moll Flanders

Anna Karenina?

Madeline

Maddaddam, if you are still interested have a look at Isabel Coixet, Pilar Miro or Gracia Querejeta for female Spanish film directors.

Quite a few Studio Ghibli are named only after women characters:
Ponyo
Kikis flying delivery service
Arietty
Princess Mononoke
Disney don't have total fail on this either:
Mulan, Pocohontas, "Brave" is titled Merida here in Austria
Although they lose points for Tangled where they sideline Rapunzel

Oh, and Iciar Bollain, of course!

Lady Jane
G.I. Jane
Calamity Jane

(on a bit of a roll there...)

Mary Reilly

Marie Antoinette